headlines on the international troops young girls reportedly taken by still controlled territories by the. by the. film. there's a broker. with north korea with the president now warning.

officials accuse u.s. forces of killing at least sixteen civilians in an ass strike however the. extremist militants on the program we hear from the victim's relatives. my mother. my two brothers my mother and my sister. all of us here international they must go we have your lives bring them home that's the cold. painting to find relatives a russian speaking children stranded in an iraqi orphanage these youngsters had reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who joined us law mixtape.

after we showed all clips from the baghdad all financial we started to receive calls and e-mails from people who think they know the children our correspondent might i guess d.f.s. travel to the russian republic of dagestan after grandparents of two sisters and fatima came forward. the two elderly grandparents both pension has had never

given up hope but it was difficult they heard nothing they knew nothing other than that their grandkids were lost in a war zone but hope never dies just days ago she filmed fatima and had deja in a baghdad will finish and their grandparents recognized them when we couldn't use your. research. there is no. place. we filmed this in the very yard in which grew up next to her beloved swing set and her sister were taken to mosul by her parents two years ago grandfather says they fell on the isis way to religious propaganda he says in june his son and his wife were killed

in a drone strike leaving the children all alone you know if you are thirty. could be there would be. nice guys you are busy i shouldn't be taken to a movie j.p. . was it what a man you by now and i support it teaches grandfather who she used to call dhaka instead of says that he's overjoyed he says that his life has meaning again but it's not over yet there are tough paperwork to file this bureaucracy and procedures to follow before the girls had fatima are allowed to return to their grandparents. but we're not going to eat there are more dark rooms or theaters couldn't marry because you know i did with. murder. the two sisters and several of the youngsters

were identified off that we filmed the baghdad orphanage but they're the lucky ones according to officials as many as a thousand youngsters from dagestan alone would taken illegally by their parents to syria and to iraq the parents perished leaving the children all alone in a country that isn't there oh. we'll continue to try and find more of these youngsters in the hopes that more of them can be reunited with their families back here in russia there is another story which could possibly have a happy ending people claiming to be the relatives of another child contacted us saying they think they recognize a toddler in the video the boy was born in iraq and they have only seen him in photos sent to them by his mother but.

some companies are going to. look at. this simply isn't a. question could you. imagine you would not . even see it and you need. to see to keep. campaign to reunite these stranded children with their families back home in russia continues if you have information or know anyone that might please have them contact us at the e-mail at the bottom of your screen. this is aussie international donald trump has a ratcheted up his rhetoric against the leader of north korea off the regime's

latest threat of a missile strike near u.s. territory in the asia region the president sent the following warning to kim jong un. to be under water threat or if he does anything with respect to qualcomm or any place else that's an american territory or an american ally he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast trump tweeted the u.s. army is locked and loaded against the secretive east asian state it's the latest in a long line of rhetoric from the american leader. north korea. make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world never see the people that would question that statement was it. maybe it wasn't tough enough that a dare to state has nothing to do with their that's

a statement and while it's still a war of words for now western media report the pentagon has plans for a preemptive strike on north korea's nuclear facilities that's raising fears across the border in seoul trying to reports so what if mr trump goes forward and all these roughly two dozen north korean missile launch sites testing grounds and other facilities go boom there is no way kim jong won't take revenge what are they going to aim at. the north korea's suffered to you indignity our army will launch the merciless own trip decision strikes from the ground sea and underwater so they'd better stop being reckless and even without the stuff trump wants to wipe out they got quite the arsenal toy unleashed hell over the thirty eighth parallel for decades north korea has been prepping artillery for that very moment and now what they've got loaded and ready to fire are twelve thousand pieces of tube artillery and twenty three hundred units of multiple launch rocket artillery.

the direction southward is clear where precisely will kim point across here here are two words for you to learn how to force and how to value targeting south korean and possibly even u.s. military facilities near the demilitarized zone versus an attack to destroy economically critical infrastructure and to cause immense civilian casualties i mean it when i see him. let's look at the range of north korean artillery on the border millions of people live there more than half of south korea's population so with roughly ten million residents and with almost three million and su one over one million all these cities are in that zone and some estimates say that

forty eight hours of artillery rage may kill one hundred thousand in and around seoul alone but what kind of specific north korean threat have we been mostly hearing about from the folks on t.v. the dramatic escalation in tensions with north korea overnight the regime divides defy president trump with a new threat against the u.s. territory of guam a chilling new warning comes as the rogue nation threatens to strike guam home to thousands of u.s. service members this is a regime that's trying to not only establish its power but demonstrate its power everyone splaying the talent kim's missile range game though even if it is capable of reaching the u.s. island in the pacific how realistic is the threat of a successful launch a launch that would dog america's. worst. if

you are us citizen on the coast of no doubt you're still pretty stressed but hey say that to south koreans from somewhere near seoul they'll be the first to get zapped if mr trump pulls the trigger and i'm going on the ground host discusses the u.s. north korea escalations with award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger the full interview here on r.t. international finale a quick clip. trump is a bit of a wimp compared with obama a bomber in the. having put american interests seven wars including the longest war in its in its history having increased the development of nuclear. warheads more than any president since the cold war obama's record was over a simple hole trampas has a long way to catch up with his previous search so that's why i really should stop

simply looking at trump the man patrol as a kind of symptom and i mentioned earlier a character true almost a cartoon version of a system a system. of those produced people that have almost brought us to the edge of nuclear war. yes collation on the korean peninsula is sparking fears of serious conflict with mainstream media just adding fuel to the fire with talks of nuclear armageddon people begin weighing their disaster plans a nuclear warhead that could land in hawaii in twenty minutes additional information on radiation from a potential nuclear blast this is an accidental threat to the united states goal searches for how to survive a nuclear attack have also gone through the roof within the past well past few months as you can see here the trend is even beaten classics like

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especially in the last three days this tremendous fire if you recall it is actually after. a while so the tensions are very high. people are taking precautions they're interested in shelters more news after the break. this manufactured incentive to public will. when the ruling closest project. in the final. we can all middle of the room see.

this transition to the batteries and the steel energy paradigm is really remarkable is happening quite rapidly and it's totally if you still jaded by this network economics that's transforming the global economy and central banks are fading and currency is fading electricity and batteries are going to battery technology and the sun so it's really huge pot defining transition to a new a new world and china is positioning themselves very well. join us here when all of the international at least sixteen civilians have died in a u.s. air strike in eastern afghanistan that's according to local officials the u.s. military's acknowledged the bombing raid in the province but claims only militants

were killed afghan officials disagree and we heard from an eyewitness of the strike and relatives of some of the victims. my father and my mother. live in people being transported in the vehicle three women five children two men and one of the women was wounded. the booming was current on. our school the place where the instrument hit. and i to have my mother and my sister were killed. the latest claims about civilian deaths come amid increasing talk of a change of talk by the u.s. in afghanistan. cording to the afghan government these civilians were killed in eastern afghanistan the u.s. government says that that is not accurate it says that only militants were killed we reached out specifically to the pentagon to get a clarification and for more information about the situation we did not receive an answer now this comes as donald trump is talking about reworking u.s. strategy in afghanistan we just heard him speak on it and he says his intention is

to make it quote a whole lot less messy it's a very big decision for the took over a mess. we're going to. make it a lot less messy but that has been a place seventeen years old there's four hours i read in one of your code and frankly. it's going to be a decision that for the. now at this point roughly eight thousand four hundred u.s. troops are in afghanistan they're joined by roughly five thousand nato forces that are there alongside them from various nato countries the united states has been in afghanistan for over sixteen years there's been a series of incidents in which civilians have been killed and increasingly in u.s. airstrikes we've also seen afghan security forces being killed much controversy surrounding u.s. activities in the country but as the u.s. intervention in the country continues there have been calls from the military for an expansion of the u.s. military presence in afghanistan one proposal comes from eric prince the owner of

a military contracting firm formerly known as blackwater this. quite controversial he's proposing that the usa privatized its war in afghanistan there would be contracted people professionals former special special operations veterans that have experience in that theater to go do that work which would be profiting from the war. well we're not there now but any vendor again that solves that solution that's that's capitalism that's that's what it's about now the expanded use of military contractors in afghanistan and other parts of the world raises questions of accountability when such forces violate international law or engage in activities that are questionable but this is just one of the many questions that are raging as the sixteen year intervention by the united states and afghanistan continues. well it depends on the list ivan eland believes a change in approach will have to come sooner rather than later. the u.s. has killed civilians and they usually say they are killing militants because they

think that's the standard line i think the real issue is whether the united states should pull out of there and that's what's being decided in washington i think president trump is less enthusiastic about leaving u.s. troops there were increasing u.s. troops then the military is that the united states even though they're losing conflicts they want to keep their finger in the dike hoping for a turnaround if they couldn't win with one hundred thousand troops u.s. troops in there it's very difficult to train afghan military that's corrupt and. very ineffective into a fighting force they've been trying to do that for you know sixteen years and has worked. and i'm too little to campaign in the german city of dues a book is stirring controversy residents have been uncovered to create motivational slogans for the city is rubbish bins the use of turkish names has left some talks

feeling like they're being singled out. i think it's a great campaign it would be nice to find your own name and it supports people to. leave it on the street. is going to really get this message to the to encourage people in cleaning up after themselves and not just on the streets on the grounds.

but one local politician not a member of the talkers community defending the initiative saying it's not against talks yet and he also didn't believe it was an act of exclusion or discrimination but we also spoke to a member of the euro alternative for germany party who told us a lack of integration could be to blame for the backlash. this whole issue is just a symptom of failed integration if you feel that you are sidelined that you'll be racist discriminated against you easily take offense luckily the german disposal company who started this initiative brushed off all complaints and carried on with business as usual it was just a very very harmless compay and i should say these are things that apply to all the people who live in that area it has nothing to do with racism as taught that again if you want to be offended you will always find something to be offended. a high

school in the u.s. state of virginia has put forward its own plan to fight racial disparity it's written to parents reportedly saying regardless of a student's ability is in rome and into top classes will now be based on race. reports the concept of affirmative action was introduced with the best intentions to combat racial discrimination but it just doesn't seem to be panning out the way it was intended to anymore especially when it comes to the education system the most recent scandal from a high school in the state of virginia left some parents furious they received this memo saying advanced classes will have quote proportional representation my initial reaction was disbelief i was taken aback i couldn't believe someone would put words like that into print and send them around to the homes of students for its part the school board defended the move thing absolutely nothing wrong with it. disagreed that those statements mean that students will be placed in classes based on race

different ethnic groups have had their problems with the current educational system back in two thousand and fifteen a coalition of asian americans accused harvard university of discriminating against them based on race saying that they expected higher standards of them compared to black and latino applicants now the justice department is reportedly going to look into that it's an absolute shame and travesty that previous administrations saw fit to ignore the well documented complaints of individual systemic discrimination against asian americans at ivy league universities and other colleges other see affirmative action giving unfair advantages to undeserving candidates to expose that issue one indian man claims he was accepted into medical school despite his poor grades because he posed as a black student he's now hopeful donald trump will end what he sees as a race this initiative i believe that president trump i believe that he will and different action like lincoln ended slavery there's a large number of people who are whiter than winter in alaska who poses as

minorities based on flimsy reasons and as a result it skews the statistics because they know that it can improve their chances of admission whether or not affirmative action sticks around it's clear the system is flawed with the vast majority of americans believing that college admission should be based solely on merit rather than the color of your skin and half of african-americans agree i mean the effort to bring a quality to the masses is being criticized even by those who the initiative is meant to help r.t. washington d.c. a european council project to stop so-called russian descent formation in the media is casting its net wider the growing numbers of publications in other countries now in the firing line or all of our reports the e.u. east struck home task force its brussels is a myth busters it's their job to seek out this information in the media and in their own woods they see this mission with one particular target. the

task force was set up to address russia's ongoing disinflation campaigns but now they've cast their net wider to include not only russian based news outlets say you don't like the current president of austria you can find yourself on the list of fake is to. say you write articles that are critical of the migrant policy you're on the list. say you say that this whole news which is designed in order to allow for the censorship by governments well then you're probably former congressman ron paul and you're definitely on the list that says that you make things up. even the guardian. stuff to publishing in. ukraine severing ties with moscow was an ideological decision that may well come as a shock to anybody appearing on the list it's no big announcement that anybody's

been put on there there's also no judicial framework in which it's judge who deserves to be on not least and who doesn't there's no appeals process if you think you've been put on there unjustly. a small disclaimer says that this is not official policy however. the point of fake news is directly funded by the european council and now has left some questioning if that's the reason that researchers and journalists have been branded frauds because they are also the ones that have been speaking out loudest against the current policy piece or all of our. international your world headlines continue in about.

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times to modellers ario filling in for lindsey graham this is broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. coming up nuclear nerves u.s. and north korea rhetoric is rattling world markets this week stocks are down more than one trillion dollars and terrorist transactions the f.b.i. says isis is using e-bay to funnel money into the u.s. light european exit millions of eggs are recalled after farmers used out one pesticides on chicken farms all that a whole lot more so sit tight starts right now. nuclear nerves are rattling stock markets worldwide the escalating war of words.